prometheusOps & cloud
prometheus
A monitoring system that scrapes target metrics, queries them with PromQL, evaluates rules, and triggers alerts when configured conditions are met.
- DevOps
- Operations
- Data
- Monitoring / Observability
- Data analysis
- Automation
- Web
- Browser
- Linux
- Self-hostable
- Runs locally
- Docker supported
- Popularity
- 66.3k Stars
- GitHub stars
- Recent activity
- 10/1/2026
- Updated in the last 30 days
- License
- APACHE-2.0
- Permissive
Why it matters
We look beyond stars: what problem it solves, whether it creates real utility, and what makes its approach worth noticing.
Problem
Addresses metrics monitoring and alerting needs for dynamic, cloud-native services.
Practical value
Provides stable and reliable metric collection and storage via a pull model, multi-dimensional data, and PromQL.
Innovation / differentiation
Employs autonomous single-node design with HTTP scraping and service discovery, avoiding distributed storage dependencies.
Leverage potential
Serves as the de facto metrics monitoring standard in the cloud-native ecosystem, integrating with numerous tools and libraries.
Why now
Emerged alongside containerization and cloud-native adoption, becoming a standard infrastructure component.
Community activity
In the last 90 days there were 76 new issues and 701 pull requests; the bounded issue/PR samples include 52 issue authors and 39 PR contributors, with at least 10 releases.
Maintainer responsiveness
The 75-issue window sample had a 51% close rate, and the 95-pull-request sample had a 61% merge rate. Maintainer-comment observations covered only 25% of that issue sample, so response rate and first-response speed are not reported.
Key highlights
- Scrape time-series metrics from configured targets at intervals
- Query metrics with a multidimensional data model and PromQL
- Manage targets through service discovery or static configuration
Quick start
How it is installed, how hard it is, and where to start.
Where it runs
Docker
Difficulty
Medium — some setup needed
- 01Download an official precompiled release or use the
prom/prometheusDocker image. - 02Prepare a Prometheus configuration file that defines scrape targets and the rules you need.
- 03Start Prometheus; the README Docker example exposes the service locally on port
9090.
Best for
- Teams that want data on their own servers
- Developers who want to try it on their machine
- People who prefer Docker deploys
More about it
Prometheus is a CNCF monitoring system for services and infrastructure. It scrapes time-series metrics from configured targets at intervals, then uses PromQL and rule evaluation to query data and trigger alerts. The official README documents a multidimensional time-series model, service discovery and static target configuration, graphing, alerting, and federation, while individual server nodes do not depend on distributed storage. Precompiled binaries and official container images are available, including a documented Docker command for quickly starting a local instance.
Sources
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capability tags
Verifiedmonitoring, data_analysis, automation
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
Latest release
Verifiedv3.15.0
Source: GitHub API · latest_release=v3.15.0 · 10/1/2026
License
VerifiedApache-2.0
Source: GitHub API · license.spdx_id=Apache-2.0 · 10/1/2026
needs api key
VerifiedNo
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
One-liner
Verified{"en":"A monitoring system that scrapes target metrics, queries them with PromQL, evaluates rules, and triggers alerts when configured conditions are met.","zh":"按固定间隔采集目标指标、使用 PromQL 查询和规则计算，并在条件满足时触发告警的监控系统。"}
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
Platforms
Verifiedbrowser, linux
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
Category hint
Inferred from materialsops-cloud
Source: Project README · hint=ops-cloud · 8/13/2026
product forms
Verifiedweb
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
role tags
Verifieddevops, operations, data
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
supports docker
VerifiedYes
Source: Repository file · dockerfile=true; compose=false · 10/1/2026
supports local
VerifiedYes
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
supports self host
VerifiedYes
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
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